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Studies on Distortion of the Optic Nerve by the Internal Carotid Artery Toshio IMAIZUMI 1 , Tsutomu SOHMA 2 , Takushi TSURUNO 3 , Toshiyuki SHINYA 3 , Masayuki TAKEDA 3 , Shigeki MORI 4 1Department of Neurosurgery, Oji Hospital 2Department of Neurosurgery, Sapporo City General Hospital 3Otaru Neurosurgical Hospital 4Mori Ophthalamological Clinic Keyword: Optic nerve , IC , MRI , Vascular compressive neuropathy , Atherosclerosis pp.229-234
Published Date 1995/3/10
DOI https://doi.org/10.11477/mf.1436900991
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The optic nerve (ON) is sometimes distorted by an atherosclerotic internal carotid artery (IC) which we observe during operations. However the distortion sel-dom causes visual dysfunction. In this paper, 102 non-operative cases without severe visual disturbance or marked effect on the visual system were studied, using coronal section of MRI and IC angiography, to ascer-tion ON distortion by IC.

The grading of the distortion was determined by coronal section of MRI. Grade (Gr) 0: No distortion of ON, Gr 1: Distortion of ON without chiasmal disloca-tion, Gr 2 : Distortion of ON with chiasmal dislocation. The rate of Gr 0, Gr 1, and Gr 2 were 62.7, 21.6 and 15.7%, respectively.

The age of Gr 0, Gr 1 and Gr 2 were 55.4 ± 19.6, 63.5 ± 14.7 and 68.9± 5.0 years old, re-spectively (Gr 2 was different from Gr 0). The occupy-ing rate was calculated by the following formula. The areas were measured by IC angiography of the optic canal:

The area of IC in optic canal/The area of optic canal× 100% The rate of Gr 0, Gr 1 and Gr 2 were 24.2 ± 19.8, 76.3 ± 13.2 and 62.0 ± 28.2%, respectively (Gr 1 and 2 differed from Gr 0) . With a rate of more than 70%, the patient had ON distortion by IC. On the antero-posterior views of IC angiography of 1.7 magnifica-tions, the distance from IC to midline of Gr 0, Gr 1 and Gr 2 were 13.5 ± 3.4, 10.7 ± 3.7 and 9.4 ± 2.9mm, re-spectively (Gr 2 differed from Gr 0) . The rate of coil-ing and kinking of cervical IC of Gr 0, Gr 1 and Gr 2 was 13.0, 20.0 and 42.8%, respectively. The distance from the base of the sella to the chiasm of Gr 0, Gr 1 and Gr 2 had no difference. These showed that the atherosclerotic elongation of IC caused the distortion of ON.

The rate of visual disturbance of Gr 0, Gr 1 and Gr 2 was 4.7, 9.1 and 12.5%, respectively. The patients with Gr 2 ON distortion were examined ophthalmologically. Half of them had visual abnormalities which were dia-gnosed as having been caused by cataract, diabetic re-tinopathy, and glaucoma.

Many cases have asymptomatic ON distortion. The distortion seldom makes visual dysfunction. Vascular compressive neuropathy of ON should not be dia-gnosed simply by the radiological finding of ON dis-location.


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